Bourgogne Rouge, Bernard Dugat-Py 2014

This is big, rich and full wine, deeply coloured, concentrated and elegant. The vineyards are farmed organically and the wine made as naturally as possible. It is built for the long tern, only beginning to open out after eight to ten years.

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Producer: Bernard Dugat-Py

The heaven-sent flavours and super velvet textures of the Dugat-Py wines are the result of sheer dedication in nurturing extremely low yielding, very old vines which average almost 70 years of age, with some being over 100. Bernard Dugat converted to organic viticulture in 2003 and tries to use horses to work the vineyards wherever possible.

The 10 ha domaine centres on the family home in a hamlet below the Clos Saint-Jacques vineyard. Its striking cellars, with their high vaulted ceiling and columns, date from the 11th and 12th centuries, once belonging to St Benedict's Abbey in Dijon. A side crypt is stuffed to the gunnels with Bernard Dugat’s personal collection of wine from eminent estates around the world. He can trace his own winemaking heritage in Gevrey-Chambertin back through his grandmother to 1645. The Dugat estate dates in name from 1923, while the ‘Py’ suffix is his wife Jocelyne’s maiden name. Their son Loïc will represent the 13th generation to run the estate. Local holdings have been supplemented in recent times by vines in Beaune, Pommard, Meursault and Chassagne to give more strings to his bow. Quantities from this, one of the top addresses in Burgundy, are tiny so visitors are few (but those that do get in are welcomed with a broad smile) and every drop is poured back into the barrel after tasting. Dugat-Py wines should never be drunk too young: Bernard advises not to broach them before six years and the grand crus not before ten!

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Red Burgundy Vintages

2016 proved a rollercoaster of a season with everything thrown at the growers in the early season but what fruit survived through to harvest is very good, quantities, however, will be small. 2015 is looking to be a classic vintage for red Burgundy. The red wines of 2014 have a great combination of red and black fruits as well as being charmingly approachable in their youth. After a late start and a cool summer, a dry September saved the day in 2013. This followed another difficult year weather-wise though the resultant wines in 2012 are soft and attractive and this in turn was preceded by a year of tricky weather in 2011. The wonderful duo of 2010 and 2009 gave elegant age-worthy wines in the former, and bigger, riper, very drinkable wines in the latter. These followed the more difficult 2008, which produced fresh wines, and 2007 when a poor summer meant only the best growers did well. 2006 was also less than straight-forward but some attractive, pure wines have emerged. The fantastic 2005 vintage gave wines which will need time to show at their best. Before that, the 2004 vintage produced fresher, lighter wines, drinking well now, and the unusually hot vintage of 2003 continues to surprise, though ultimately the tannins may out-live the fruit. 2002 was a good vintage, giving some attractive mid-term drinking wines. The best growers had to be careful not to over-extract tannins in 2001. The Millennium year of 2000 proved tricky but some soft, easy wines were produced (drink up) while 1999 was a super vintage, giving wines which will stand the test of time but be approachable throughout their evolution. The 1998 vintage produced some good wines though some can be a little foursquare. If you still have some of the charming wines from 1997, drink up soon, whilst the 1996 and 1995s were rather good being fresher and darker respectively.

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